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an encouraging sign
The Atlanta Constitution has on num¬
erous occasions taken a stand on racial
questions, which gives substance to our
hopes that a considerable !influenc<e in
our state is working for justice and
square dealing for all people. While
we have not at all times been in total
agreement with its views, we feel that
in the main, it, has been honest and
sincere in its position as to equal justice.
Editor McGill’s comment on the Toombs
county murder of Robert Mallard and
the attitude of county authorities, ex¬
presses the view of any honest man who
has the courage to state the facts as
they are, even if they are spoken in de¬
fense of justice to a helpless and dis¬
traught Negro widow; even if in doing
so he had to take to task officials who
were attempting to cover up a plain case
of wanton murder. Mr. McGill’s com¬
ment with its many implications states
the thing so plainly and pointedly that
we quote certain passages from it. Al¬
ter stating the case as it has appeared
in the press, he writes:
“B u t, what happens?
Nothing at all. No one is arrested.
The murder was moj-e or less sup¬
pressed for four days. There is
good reason to believe that had the
newspapers not dug it out . .no le¬
gal action would have been attempt-
ted by anyone concerned- It would
have ‘blown over.’ It may do that
anyhow. “Now the sheriff says,
according to quotes from reporters,
that if no warrants are sworn out
the evidence will be submitted to a
February Grand Jury.
It is precisely this sort of thing
the nation cannot understand. The
nation knows that had a white man
been shot in cold blood by a Negro
there would have been no such delay.
John Doe warrants would have been im¬
mediately issued and the entire ma¬
chinery of the law would have been
set in motion- The bloodhounds
and the posse would ha_ve been out,
night and day, until the guilty were
apprehended or all possibility of cap¬
ture exhausted.”
"In the name of God, then, why
cannot the law operate equally to
protect all citizens? That is the
question the nation asks and that’s
the question the nation has a right to
ask. . . It is such an obvious reluc¬
tance to apply the same vigor lo
bring a killer to jail as would have
been applied were the dead man a
white man, that the next Congress
will surely pass some sort of anti-
lvnch legislation. That it will sub¬
ject sheriffs and other law-enforce¬
ment officers to some penalty of
Federal law is probable.”
It will be recalled that a definite ef¬
fort was made to absolve the Klan from
any blame and participation in the
murder. Not that the attempt to cov¬
er a crime against a Negro was any¬
thing new, but that in the face of the
testimony of the murdered man’s wife
that the killers were robed, the thing
was a bit surprising. Mr. McGill con¬
tinues:
“There was another aspect of the
case which was shameful. The
original investigating officers for
the state apparently were first in¬
terested in clearing the Ku Klux
Klan. This does not appear to he
a Klan killing, although it is exact¬
ly in the Klan pattern- But it will
be interesting to learn, if the killers
are ever brought to justice, wheth¬
er they are members of the Klan.
One might safely wager great odds
they are members.” . . . Finally, this
man was killed because he was a
Negro- The current report is he
owned land he wouldn't sell. . If a
sheriff were to say, after a murder
by a Negro, that he would make an
arrest of the man or men reported
to have done the murder if some¬
one would please swear out a war¬
rant, he would be ousted from of¬
fice, if not run out of town. There
is a great difference and only the
wilful will ignore that difference.
What has happened not only is wick¬
ed and wrong, it just doesn't make
sense. It has hurt Georgia and the
South and it is the sort of illogical
action that cannot in any sense be
excused.”
We commend to our readers to secure
a copy of the Atlanta Constitution,
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Office at Savannah, Qa. under the Act of
March 3, 1879
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last Thursday’s issue, and read Mr.
McGill’s editorial, Now Comes Murder
in Toombs. The Atlanta Constitution,
and the Atlanta Journal, also, may be
classed as newspapers with a liberal
point of view on race questions. They
are performing a much needed service
to the people of Georgia and the South.
Many people depend on newspapers to
give direction to their opinions. In¬
stead of inciting their readers to rash
and illogical thinking And action, thoy
are actually encouraging them to re-
spect law and order in a democratic
country- U'Jch papers are capable or
doing a great deal for bringing about
better race relationship. There is room
for many more such newspapers. May
their tribe increase.
ANOTHER DEVICE
Some people were inclined to believe
that, after several /decisions from the
U. S. Supreme Court on the right of
Negroes to vote in elections, and the abo¬
lition of the poll tax in Georgia, the
fight for this basic democratic right
was over- We have always advised that
some way would be sought by the foes
of actual democracy to prevent the free
exorcise of the ballot. In a recent re¬
lease to the program of the incom-,
ing legislature, plans are included for
accomplishing what w hite primaries and
the private club idea failed to accom¬
plish. The law will be drawn osten¬
sibly to apply to all citizens, but every¬
body knows now what citizens will be
eliminated. -'We can have no objection
to any voting qualification which will
apply’ equally. the The interpretation experience, of qual¬ how¬
ever, is that all
ifications will be determined by an
white board of registrars, and there is
no doubt as to the interpretations they
will employ when Negroes are concern¬
ed. The educational qualification
that includes* interpreting any clause of
the State or National constitution is ob¬
jectionable for the reason that not too
many people will he able to do it. The
very men who make the laws, or consti¬
tutions have difficulty explaining will them.
Serious as the matter is, there be,
as there have been, many comical situ¬
ations involved * in the application of
such a qualification. Imagine what
will happen in many backwoods counties.
An educational qualification for device vot¬
ing will prove a most effective
for disfranchising many Negroes. We
see no chance that such a qualification
will not be imposed by the new legisla¬
ture.
If present plans of The Hub go through,
an interesting annual event will be in¬
augurated on December 17, when the
first Moss Bowl football game will be
played at Grayson Stadium- We be¬
speak for The Hub the liberal patron¬
age of all sports-lovers. Beside pro¬
moting a real sporting event, the occa¬
sion will give the public an opportunity
to assist an organization in the pursuit
of its purpose to advance the civic wel¬
fare of our entire community. It has
not called on the public for assistance,
since it sponsored a mass meeting in
interest of the Primus King case. To
crowd the stadium on the occasion of
the game between our Beach-Cuyler
High School and R a d c 1 i f f e
High School of Columbus, will do two
things: It will help in promoting an an¬
nual sports classic, and will pay a tribute
to an organization which has been a
friend at court for Negroes on many im¬
portant matters.
We think it is a bad thing to impli¬
cate our schools in politics, particularly
shortsighted is it to suggest that the
building of our proposed new high school
depends upon the election of one or the
other political factions. A (paid politi¬
cal advertisement in one of last week’s
papers suggested as much. It sounded
as a threat to Negro voters. It was all
the more ill-advised in view of the fact
that the county authorities, themselves,
divorced the bond election from politics
by holding them at times separate from
the regular elections. Let’s keep our
schools out of political involvment; let’s
not jeopardize our right to cast a free
ballot. The needs of our children are
above and beyond political parties. Both
parties committed themselves to favor¬
ing the bond ©lections for improving
our schools. Let’s not make our school
needs a political football.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUWS
W o\\ij J<W. o'i’iies
By George Matthew Adams
The greatest stumbling obstruction
to all health, happiness and success is
that all familiar, ever-lurking thing
which we term Worry! It has obstruct¬
ed more paths to health and happiness
than anything else. It has no good
use in any shape or manner. It is total¬
ly evil in intent and in result.
There is only one way to handle wor¬
ry and that is to root it up—and away
with it! Merely to cut it down so that
there remains only a stump is only half
conquering it. No sign of it should re¬
main to remind you of its past.
People handle their worries in differ¬
ent ways. Some harbor them only at
home; some merely at their office, while
others have them tagging them wherev¬
er they go and in w hatever they are en¬
gaged. These worries hop around on
their work desk, go out to lunch with
them, and follow their heels home at
night. These worries are both animate
and inanimate. Their purpose, howev¬
er, is to damage and destroy.
Since worries contribute world,’ nothing to
one’s work in this how strange it
is that they are harbored- Perhaps one
of the main reasons why worries come
to so many is that people leave so many
doors in their mind open so that the wor¬
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By Dean Gordon B. Hancock for ANP
THE FORTHCOMING FILIBUSTER
The advocates and friends of civil rights
legislation as espoused b$ President Tru-
mai|, may as well reconcile themselves to
the fact that the opposition is bound to re¬
sort. to the filibuster, so long the instrument
of reactionary southerners. None but the
rashly optimistic has ever imagined that
all was over but the shouting, as respects
the civil rights program.
The defeated southerners are In a vin¬
dictive mood and will resort to many sub¬
terfuges and expedients before they finally
succumb to the inevitable. (Ndgroes must
not lose heart therefore, If Truman’s civil
rights pregram runs into a snag. And
above all, Truman must not be blamed for
the spacious tactics that the diehard Dixie-
crats are bound to employ. Dixiecracy is
not dead by a long shot, and if it is, it does
not know it.
What we have won thus far amounts
merely, to the first skirmish in the fray.
Nothing tangible can be accomplished un¬
less an (ffiective cloture measure can be
in’roduced and approved. Such bills must
not only run. the gauntlet of the vindictive
Democrats of Dixiecratic affinities and af¬
filiations. but it must pass muster before
the deceitful and designing Republicans of
sou'hern sympathies- Truman’s great glory
and victory was in bringing it irfto the fore¬
front of the world’s attention and wherein
it fails to advance will redound to the dis¬
grace cf Congress and not our courageous
President.
The greater victory consists in makng
such gains in this field of human rela¬
tions that it will take a filibuster to stop
it; and when any measure gets to the place
that a filibuster must defeat it, it has won
a signal victory. Synching has lost favor
in this country to the extent that it has
taken filibusterafter filibuster to save the
lynching prerogative of the mob-ridden
South.
This writer would not be averse to
seeing an orthodox southern filibuster such
as would hamper Congress in the enact¬
ment of necessary legislation. Such filibuster
one call atten-
Masonic-Eastern Star ^Jotes
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Savannah was honored by th®
esence of Grand Master John
esley Dobbs and
reasurer Joseph Crawford of
e Masonic Relief Association,
lev arrived Tuesday afternoon
id will leave Saturday morn-
g. They attended the anni-
rsary celebratio nof Mt. Mo-
ah Ledge No. 15 on Tuesday
gilt and that of Hilton Lodge
2 orf Friday night.
rh» rYinimiftpp met on Kun-
ries rush in and almost boss the entire
man or woman, in fact, sometimes do
wholly boss. The “Im’-so-worried-that
I-can’t think-eat-or-sleep” stage.
Just fill the space in the mind that wor-
worries occupy and you will -have no wor-
left. They’ll all be crowded out! Wor¬
ries occupy and you v. ‘ill have no worries
get used to it and so think that they
must hang onto it. They have no idea
of a free and happy life until they have
dismissed all worry—and learned how
to live without it. And how very hap¬
py are those who do live without it!
The longer you carry worries the
heavier they get. We need all the
strength of mind and body that is al¬
lotted to us. Worries weaken and rob
us of the strength that we need. None
of us can do our best work when worried.
Cromw r ell once uttered a very useful
admonition. He said: “Put your trust
in God, my boys, and keep your powder
dry”!
We get such an assurance by looking out
upon nature—its regularity its courage, its
acceptance, its peacefulness, and its re¬
newal qualities like an immortal drama.
And the thought comes to one that
nothing really dies—it just changes.
All is transition. Isn’t God in command?
Why give over to worry?
tioni to the scourge that is race prejudice in
this country. The filibuster takes away the
cloak of respectability from prejudice and
exposes, the club foot that makes decent
people sick at heart. The cause then is
bound to be well served whether we get clo¬
ture or whether we are treated to an old or -
thodox southern filibuster. The sicker the
country can be made of Dixiecracy the bet¬
ter; and the sooner the better-
There is one thing of which we all may
be sure and that is, the south is getting
sicker anii sicker of being the target of the
world’s accusing finger. The Dixieerat may
blow and bluster, but at heart the average
southerner is a sensitive creature; and it
gives him no pleasure to be singled out as
an advocate of lynching and other anti¬
social practices. The spotlight of public
opinion is playing too pitilessly upon the
south for it ever to be again on good terms
with itself until its greatest joy comes from
other things than “lording it over” poor
ami underprivileged Negroes.
The better elements of the white south
are even now “sick and tired” of everlast¬
ingly apologizing for the depredations of
their less circumspect' fellows. And then,
too, when a Mississippian begins to.talk of
“compromise” on the civil rights program,
we have something really new. It is like
the man biting the dog when a chronic
Mississippian shows willingness to “compro¬
mise” on anything but the utter subjuga¬
tion and domination of Negroes. Yet, this
is the latest in civil rights discussions.
It is fervently to be hoped that the
chronic Negro Republicans will not chime
in with the Dlxiecrats and commence a
heckling war on Truman. Of course, Tru¬
man does not care, but we should. There
is no way to prove that if Dewey had won
the election he would not be face to face,
as at present, with the possibilities of a
filibuster such as may mean further post¬
ponement of the long awaited day when
civil rights will be the portion of every Ne¬
gro, even those who fought against us on
the bloody field of battle. The forthcoming
filibuster need not occasion alarm. It is
proof of defeat.
day afternoon to arrange for
the joint installation of offi-
® rs on st - John’s Day, Dec. 27.
Pa st Master Geo. L. Smith,
presided.
Every Lodge arid Chapter
must keep in mind the needy
I nes around the Christmas Sea-
son, especially to cheer the
widows and orphans.
Odr heart must go out to
that widow who is sorrowing
hAransp of the untimely death
THE ROAD TO HEALTH
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By Mye Haddock, M. D., Head
of Haddock Clinic, Shreveport,
La., for ANP
Mrs. Weaver was shocked and
plainly disbelieving when I
told her she was suffering from
lack of nourishment. She had
come to my office, she said,
because she felt constantly
tired and her digestion had
been none too good. After a
thorough physical examination,
including a chest X-ray and a
blood test, II discovered that
her body was not getting th?
nourishment needed to keep it
(supplied with sufficient good
red blood.
When I explained this to mj
patient, she protested that she
ate plenty of food and that it
was hard to believe that he.
eating habits might have some¬
thing to do with her lacking
enough h ffood good blood. blood. Even Even io
the last few weeks when she
was not feeling well, she said
her husband continued to joke
about her “enermous appetite.’
Mrs. Weaver went on to list
the kinds of food which she
said she ate in great quanti¬
ties. It was plain that her fa¬
vorites were either starchy
foods or those with little nu¬
tritional value.
“Many people eat sufficient
quantities of food, Mrs. Weaver,
but when they don’t eat the
right kirfds, they can actually
be starving themselves as fat
as building blood and tissues is
concerned,” I told her. “The
body needs protein, vitamins
and minerals to build it and
keep it in repair- It can” op¬
erate the way it should if they
The Labor View
By George F. McCray for ANP
^ ^
Is Thece Too Much Talk
Philip Murray, president of
the CIO, and his good friend, |
Willard S. Townsend, president
of the United Transport Serv¬
ice Employes Union, rose to
unusual heights during their
annual discussion of race dis¬
crimination at the annual
vention of the CIO which
this year in Oakland, Calif.
flccording to newspaper re-
ports Townsend is supposed to
have argued that somebody is
doing too much talk about ra-
cial discrimination and that
Communists are exploiting the
issue. I Haven't had a chance
to check reports with brother
Townsend as to what he really
’said, but if he argues th it
more direct action is needed,
literally hundreds of thousand ;
of workers in the CIO wcu
shout “Amen!”
There is no doubt about it
Mr. Murray is a siribere, indus
trious and God-fearing ma*
He does not believe in discrim
ination and thinks other me.
who do are fools.
But Mr. Murray doesn’l
know exactly what can be done
to persuade the millions of
workers who believe in him to
adopt his views. Frequently,
he seems actually intimidate:
by the opposition to a strong
interracial educational program
At the last meeting of Uv
United Steel Workers of Amer¬
ica, which has a total memoei-
ship of nearly 750,000 among
whom are nearly 100,000 Ne¬
groes, Negro delegates success-
ully agitated for the establish¬
ment of an anti-discrimination
Icommittee within Murray’s own
international union.
According to reliable reports,
Murray was uncertain abou,
the idea along with many oth¬
er regional officials of the un¬
ion Some regional officials
made vows of reprisals against
the Negro delegates demanding
the. establishment of a special
anti-discrimination program in
the steelworkers’ union.
Of course. President Murray,
himself, would have no part of
such sordid proceedings, and if
hn/4 nnt ffivpfi his anoroval
of her husband in such an
! usual manner. All of us
{contribute towards her
dependent ones.
Remember that the
from each lodge, contains
which will contribute
the well being of the order.
Cheerfulness will do much
swell the well being of
one during the coming days,
! Through the consideration
the Grand Master Eureka
No- 1. was favored and
,worthy ones were brought to
| the light Wednesday night
last week.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 9 , ISIS
are not included in your diet
hi sumcient quantities.”
Tnese necessary food ele¬
ments, I told her, can be found
in meat, f-sh, eggs, fresh fruits
and vcjetaoies, milk and milk
products, bread and whole
grain cereals. Mrs. Weaver
f.sked me about the vitamin
pills ai^i preparations that
could be bought at the store.
I pointed out that, wh.le such
preparations have their place,
a well-balanced diet containing
the necessary food elements
ordinarily doesn’t need to be
supplemented by vitamin pills.
Mrs. Weaver was interes'ed
i t just why her poor blood
would make her feel ‘'all drag¬
ged out” even after one of her
neavy meals or after a good
•est. I explained that the blood
plays an important part in
keeping th tbody in satisfac¬
tory working condition- When
the blood isn’t rich and red
enough, many important body
functions are slowed down and
„he entire body is weakened.
Therefore, the “blood-buil the moH§ d-^
ing” foods are among Weaver”
important. For Mrs.
diet, I stressed vegetables and
auits rich in vitamins and
minerals—turnip greens, spin-
ich, kale, carrots and peas. She
also needed to add milk and
fruits, including citrus fruits,
o her daily foods.
When I mentioned that fresh
Sean meat was a source of ne-
;essary protein for the body,
Mrs. Weaver interrupted to
aoint out that fresh meat is
ofte.l difficult to get and is
usually very expensive. I told
?.er then of other foods that
were rich in protein, such as
soy beans, navy and lima beans,
peanuts and dried yeast.
Meals that are well planned
:o include a good supply of
erotein, minerals and v itamins
mean less expense, in the long
run, and most important, the
building and preservation of
3 , family’s good health.
(This article is co-sponsoied
ay the National Medical Asso¬
ciation ar,d the National Tu¬
berculosis Association in the
interest of better health of the
people.)
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Job Discrimination
finally, the “stronger’ anti-
discrimination resolution would
not have been adopted.
President Murray at the CIO
convention in Oakland, talked
in prideful language about the
strong anti-discrimination pro-
which the steel workers
had just put into operation,
Few delegates knew, and per-
haps President Murray himself,
not know that the steel
anti - discrimination
committee, which was appoinf-
e d as. far back as June, has
not even organized itself for
work.
The director of the steel
workers’ anti - discrimination
committee is Tom Shane, Fox
building, Detroit, Micl?., apd
the vice chairman is Joseph
Germano of Gary, Ind.
None of these men believes in
discrimination against Negroes
and each can point to many
instances in which he fought
‘or the rights of Negro work-
>rs even at the risk of offend¬
ing powerful political groups
vithin, the union-
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Files of The Savannah
Tribune
DECEMBER 10, 1898
Georgia Annual Conference
meets in Darien next week.
Rev. L. H Smith, pastor of St.
Philip AME church, and Rev.
W. M. Smith, presiding elder.
Col. J. H. Deveaux and oth¬
ers went to Atlanta to see the
governor in behalf of Abe
,'mall. Monday a delegation
'f ministers called on Judge
Falligant in his behalf.
First Bryan Baptist church
recalled Rev. G. W. Griffin for
another year last Sunday.
Emancipation Association to
meet Monday afternoon to
make final arrangements for
Emancipation Day.
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